Hello Everyone, I apologize in advance for the long brain dump of a post. I previously kept a planted tank back in 2016, a high-tech, medium-light 46 gal bow front, and enjoyed pretty good success. That tank used mineralized topsoil, a finnex ray 2, a C02 setup cobbled together from evil bay...

... should I start to see ammonia and nitrite levels rise? I figured they should shoot up pretty quick but ever since adding soil, gravel, and plants two weeks ago, everything bad remains at zero. Am I good to add fish or is there a delay that I'm missing? I haven't gotten to that part of...

Hi natural scapers, I passed up just the other week on the opportunity of trying the Walstad approach when re-scaping a small 2.5G tank because I didn‘t know about it. So, no soil but gravel, heavily planted nevertheless, ferts when needed. Just yesterday I incorporated her siesta lighting...

Hello! I got into fish tanks around January of this year, and I did a lot of research. I had a high tech guppy tank a few years ago when I was younger, but it was mostly maintained by my parents. Now I have my own 10 gallon and 20 gallon currently set up, and I am working on a 29 right now...

I have done high-tech planted tanks in the past and am starting the hobby again. I had already begun a tank with the dry start method (DSM) before coming across Diana Walstad's work. I was so intrigued I bought her book immediately. However, my DSM is already 2 weeks old and I have already...